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Medicare's decision to reimburse providers for behavioral health integration (BHI) and Collaborative Care Management (CoCM) codes shows the feds want PCPs to address mental health in Medicare. But some Medicaid programs have gotten there first, and can serve as a guide to how it can be done. 

 
Part B News editors surveyed readers and interviewed experts to come up with numerous predictions of what will affect physician practices in 2018. Here's a sneak peek at one of the predictions related to new codes coming down the pike in 2018 -- and what you may expect -- with the remainder of the predictions coming in the Jan. 1, 2018, issue.
 

 

Having made allowances in Quality Payment Program (QPP) reporting for practices affected by recent natural disasters, CMS is now giving Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs) a similar break in both their QPP reporting and in their Shared Savings program scoring.

 

At this writing the House of Representatives has passed the Republican tax bill containing a repeal of the Obamacare individual mandate; the Senate and President Trump are expected to make the bill law this week. We asked Robert F. Atlas, strategic advisor and president of EBG Advisors, Inc. in Washington, D.C., what happens with the ACA now.

Medical practices that run labs are in for fluctuating reimbursement come Jan. 1, with 897 lab codes in line for a 10% dip in payment and another 109 codes seeing a pay boost of 10% or more.

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